Background: Postnatal depression (PND) is a major depressive disorder in the year
following childbirth, which impacts on women, their infants and their families. A range of …

Background Serious parental mental illness poses a challenge to quality of life (QoL) in a
substantial number of children and adolescents. Improving the lives of these children is a …

Objective: Despite the increasing use of screening instruments to identify women with
postnatal depression (PND), many do not access services and supports. It is unclear how …

Objectives: To investigate outcomes for postnatal women attributed to special training for
health visitors (HVs) in systematically identifying postnatal depression and delivering …

Screening for perinatal depression and anxiety in community-based maternal and child
health settings may help close the detection and treatment gap among women at higher risk …

Background The prevalence of mental health and psychosocial problems in primary care is
high. Counselling is a potential treatment for these patients, but there is a lack of consensus …

Objective: It is very challenging to make an unbiased diagnosis of psychiatric illness.
Platelets have long been proposed as easily obtainable, neurological models of …

Objective: Publicly funded cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) for mental disorders is
scarce in Canada, despite proven efficacy and guidelines recommending its use. This paper …

Most of the work on the transition to parenthood can be linked to the following question: To
what extent does the first child's arrival affect spouses' marital satisfaction? This question is …

Anxiety is common among postpartum women and can have adverse effects on mother's
and child's somatic and psychological health if left untreated. In the UK, nurses or midwifes …